The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-08-18

epicHuiu SeTIEOn over your remains, ant
the quartz. may sing like four angels il
the organ loft, but your death will Ne
sWindle, You had the means to provide
Tor tie comfort ~ your household wber
Won LETT ", and yOu wickedlv neglected il
"oh," SAYS some one. IL have more fsitl
than Won; believe when I go out cf thil
world the Lord will provide for them"
TO tn Blsckwel's Island: GO through al
the poor houses Of the country, and vii
show You how often God provides for tbs
neglected children Of neglected parents
That he provides for them through public
charity. As FOR myself, I would rather
have the Lord provide for NV family in 8
private home, and through my own indus
try and pater,.a, aud couiugal faithful
ness, but, SAYS some man:
u mean in the next ten or twenty wears
I" make great fortune. and So shall
leave my family, when so out NJ this
world, very comfortable"
How No Won know vDu are going 20 1--we
ten NJ twenty years: II W. could look up
the highway ~ the future. W. would see it
crossed hS pneumoniaS. aud plsurisirs,
and couSnmptiunS. and Unliiug railroad
trains, and rlinav5N horses, and breaking
hridseA aid funeral professions. Are Won
- certain Won are going to live ten or
twenty years YOU can warrant Nour house
hold any comfort after Won go away from
them: Besides that. the vast ma joriiv #
men die poor Two only out OF a hundred
| succeed in business Are Won very ceI
tain Won are going 10 he one -! the two:
( Rich one dav, poor the next \ man in
New York got $2,pbOOnN. and the money
turned his brain. aud he died in the Iunatic
asylum. All his property was Left with
/ the business firm. and they swampod IT,.
aud then the family ct the insane man
was lett without dollar In eighteen
months the pu>perit,, tn" insanity. the
| insolvency and 'he complete domestic
ruin,
| Ras,les that, there are men Who die
{ solvent, who are in>olveut before they get
under the ground. or before their estate is
settled up. How soon the au"tioneer'S
mallet can knock the life ont Of an estate.
I A man thinks the property il worth Sl5.-
/ h1; under a forced sale IL brings 5000.
( The business man takes advantage OF the
/ crisis and he compelS the widow 81 his
deceased partner to sell out to him at a
! ruinous price or loose all. The stock was
supposed to be very valuable hut il has
been so "watered" that when the executor
tries to soil it be is laughed ont of Wall
! street, III tUt ADMINISTRATOR Is ordered Nv
the Surrogate to wind up the whole affair
The estate was supposed, at the mans
death, to be worth Sj0oo0: but after the in.
debtednesS had been met. and the bill of
/ the doctor, and the undertaken, and the
tomhstone-cutter have been paid, there i
nothing left,
That means the children are to come
home from school and 60 to work That
la. Ill; e..
turned out with nothing but needle to
fight the great battle of the world. Tear
down the lamhrequiuS. close the piano, rip
up the Administer, sell ont the wardrobe
and let the mother take Il child in each
hand aud trudge ont into the desert of the
world. a life insurance would have him
dered all that.
But" says some one, 81 am man of
small means, and can't afford to pay the
premium
That is sometimes a lawful and genuine
excuse, and theirs y no answer to it; but in
nine cases out Of ten when man says
that he smokes up in cigars and drinks
down in wine, and expends i'll luxuries
enough money to have paid the premium
on life insurance policy which would
have kept his family from beggarv when
he is dead. A man ought to put himself
down ON the stricteSt economy until he can
meet this Christian necessity. You have
no right to the Injuries of life until you
have made such provision.
| | admire what was said by Rev. Dr.
I Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher. 4
/ few years before his death lie stood in
! public meeting and declared:
Nv hen ! came I" Edinburgh the people
! sometimes laughed ar my blue stockings
and AT my cotton umbrella, and they said
/ | looked like a common plOwman. and
/ they derided me because lived in a house
for which paid f35 rent wear, and often
time, | walked when would have been
very glad to have Il cab; but, gentlemen,
did all that because ! wanted to paw the
premium on life insurance that would
keen my family comfortable if | should
die"
That take 10 be the right expression of
an honest. intelligent, Christian man.
/ The utter Indifference of many people on
this important subject accounts for much
of the crime and pauperisIn Of this day.
Who are the children sweeping the cross
ingS with broken broom, and hagging of
you penny Nou 60 by Who are the
/ lost Souls gliding under the gashght, in
thin Shawls: All, they are the victims of
| want; in many of the cases the forecast Of
parents and grandparents mi ht have
prevented il. God only knows how they
struggled to do right. They PRAYED until
the tears froZe on their cheeks. they SeWed
on the sack until the breaking of the day:
but they could not get enough money to
/ pay the rent; they could not get enough
money to deccnriy clOthe themselves: and
one day in that wretched home the angel
of purity aud the angel of crime fought
great fight between the empty bread
tray and the trele~> hearth and the
black winged angel shrirked;
"Aha, have won The day"
| Saws some men: II believe what You
sa"; it is right and Christian, and | mean
some time to attend 10 this matter"
My fierd, you are going TO lose the com
! fort Of YOU household in the same way the
sinner loses ieaven-by procrastnation
see all around me the destitute and suf-
fering families of parents who meant some
! day to attend to this Christian duty. Dur
! ing the process OF adjournment the man
| gets his feet wet, then comes a chill and de-
| lirium, and the dOieful shake OF the
! Doctors head, and the obSequies
/ If there be any thing more pitiable than
a woman delicately brought up, and on
her marriage day by her indulgent father
/ given To ii man 10 whom Size is the chief
! Joy ard pride of life until the moment of
/ death, and that same woman going out
! with helpless chiidreG a heI bGck TO stru2-
/ gle for bread in q world where hrawnv
muscle and rugged sDul are ntceSs ari-
! | say, ii there be any thing mere ptiahle
I than that do not know what il is